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Acknowledgements -- Matters of professional identity and social work / Stephen A. Webb -- Key concepts and perspectives -- Perspectives on professional identity : the changing world of the social worker / Mike Dent -- What is professional identity and how do social workers acquire it? / Fran Wiles -- Materiality, performance and the making of professional identity / Torben Elgaard Jensen -- Constructing the social, constructing social work / Elizabeth Harlow -- Location, context and workplace culture -- Vocation and professional identity : social workers at home and abroad / Mark Erickson and Jem Price -- Risk work in the formation of the "professional" in child protection social work / Emily Keddell and Tony Stanley -- Identity formation, scientific rationality and embodied knowledge in child welfare / Melissa Hardesty -- Field, capital and professional identity : social work in health care / Liz Beddoe -- Interprofessional collaboration : strengthening or weakening social work identity? / Julia Emprechtinger and Peter Voll -- Commitment in the making of professional identity / Stewart Collins -- Professional identity in the care and upbringing of children : towards a praxis of residential child care / Mark Smith -- Professional education, socialisation and readiness for practice -- Shaping identity? : the professional socialisation of social work students / Julia Wheeler -- Credible performances : affect and professional identity / Jadwiga Leigh -- Making professional identity : narrative work and fateful moments / Maura Daly and Martin Kettle -- Professional identity as a matter of concern / Stephen A. Webb -- References -- Index

The article aimed to present and analyze the results of a research accomplished in the Military and Civil Policemen in the Federal District of Brazil to better understand the relation between police and society. The investigation was conducted through the Theory of Social Representations, and the data collection occurred during 2011/ 2012. It was done based on: i. questionnaires answered by 1.181 PM and 399 PC, from both sexes; ii. 11 interviews and iii. 06 focal groups, being 04 with the military police and 02 with the civil police. To active the goal, the research centered the analysis in the comprehension about the way policemen constructed their own identities: a special attention was given to the construction of their social representations about their practices in the streets, their definition of occupation, their reference patterns, their ethos and identity as policemen, their proudness of being policemen or the lack of it. The study also researches how each corporation distinguished itself from the other group but also from the common citizens. Some of the results pointed out to a great tension between the two corporations, civil and military, tension that made it almost impossible for them to construct a common professional identity. At the same time, it was found a certain lack of identity in both groups but in a sharp way in the military corporation, or, in other words, they seemed to construct a negative self-recognition about themselves with negative effects in the relation between police and society.